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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Already started moving my shit off Google. Been with them since 2004 and have nearly my entire post-high school life in there. I won’t ever watch their ads, I’ll stop going to YouTube the day my ad-blocker stops working.
You guys are the culprits. You love chromium right? And chromium is from google. And have you stopped for moment to think why chromium is free and good? Because Google wants you to get addicted to it. Google wants you to not feel comfortable with other browsers such as palemoon, librefox or Firefox. Once the majority of users use chromium, more and more websites will only work for chromium. And now Google dominates the web with its WEI thanks to majority of users who uses chromium. Web is not open anymore to begin with. It’s dead since chromium took over.
Before chromium Apocalypse, there were many browsers engines: presto (opera), msie, gecko, goanna (palemoon) but now 99,9% of browsers are Chromium.
Google is very smart, give them free product with great features (chromium) and when the product takes off, subjugate the users with proposed standards such as WEI, FLOC etc.
Google never give a damn about users. Chromium is free because it is only tool for web domination
Am I allowed to add WebKit to your list of engines ?
How the turntables something something: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/12/22327306/google-microsoft-attack-open-web-online-news-australia-laws
(Translation: you can’t do that before we do it that’s not fair!)
This is likely going to be the dumbest question of the year, but Why can’t we do our own federated web standards?
The web is already federated. Anyone can start their own web server and compete with everyone.
The problem is WEI will prevent you from using unauthorized browsers with, for example, Netflix or YouTube or your bank, if those services decide to force WEI.
Federating those services is near to impossible for various reasons. People could make competing services that don’t enforce WEI, and some people have.
In theory yes. In practice no, since money is required. Otherwise we would all build YouTube replacements.
Dang you’re right. I didn’t think of that.
Write to your country’s anti-trust body if you feel Google is unilaterally going after the open web with WEI (content below taken from HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880390).
US:
EU:
UK:
India:
Example email:
Do you happen to know where the one for Canada is?
Thank you so much for making this an easy action.
Thanks. If enough people make a fuss like this, WEI will go away.
It’s not by chance that the worst dystopias of science fiction never quite come true. It’s because the optimists and the do-somethings outnumbered the cynics and the do-nothings.
New Zealand: https://comcom.govt.nz/consumers/dealing-with-typical-situations/anti-competitive-behaviour-by-businesses
The github links are broken.
These links? They work for me.
Thanks, jerboa must be glitching out today
I didn’t even know India had an anti trust org. Thanks for sharing this.
This is a well written. Thanks. Anyone who needs persuading should read the above.
5% of the time it won’t send the attestation data, and that’s supposed to prevent this from being used to gatekeep the entire web.
What a fucking joke. That approach will never work and they know it. Attestation will become fully mandatory if integrated into Chromium.
the open web isn’t as profitable as the walled garden where we can shovel ads and algorithms at unwitting consumers to extract money from them.
You will use internet as google said, or you won’t use it at all!